Talking about Generations

By Blake Sunshine It can be tough to be a Millennial at work. Especially when you are working with people who are 10 to 30 years older than you. And while Millennials sometimes get a bad reputation, we know that we bring value to the workplace. Of course, it’s important that we play nice with [...]

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By Grace Boyle My co-worker and close friend, Tara is Gen X. She pokes fun because I’m Gen Y. I laugh it off. It’s funny. We don’t have any other riffs besides our generational jokes. At the startup I work for, we’re about 30% Gen Y, 60% Gen X and 10% Boomers. I’m one of [...]

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By Andy Teach It’s funny how sometimes we miss the most obvious things in the workplace. I was an executive in the entertainment industry for over 25 years. As a Baby Boomer, I managed many members of Generation Y during that time. If I had any difficulties managing a Gen Y’er, I always assumed that [...]

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- Hi Honey, how are you? Look, I need to know how to add a friend on “Orkut.” – Dad you are going to need to access that person’s profile. So just click here. – OK. I’m on their profile page. Now what? – Now, you click on the menu and to the left side [...]

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The death of Michael Jackson means the death of a brilliant entertainer who also lived between three generational planes. We could perhaps call him an “X Y Boom.” Technically born into the baby boomer generation, he speaks our parents’ language and has many fans in the baby boomer age group. And yet, nearly every time [...]

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We knew it was going to happen eventually.  We just didn’t want to believe it.  We knew the day would come when Generation Y would lead the way, as our bosses. Remember that movie “In Good Company?” That movie totally predicted this sort of situation, although it did seem a bit unrealistic at the time.   [...]

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There are two perspectives widely held by Baby Boomers and Generation X, regarding our (Generation Y’s) impatient and impulsive behavior. The pessimists believe that we have a hard time accepting the traditional corporate culture, as it currently exists. They believe that everything we do is wrong. Even if they don’t admit it, they believe it.

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“If you tweet my post on Flickr, I’ll give you props on your blipper, and confirm your PR on my Facebook App.” When I hear a sentence like this, I get chills up my spine.  I feel that I’ll never “get there.”  I’ll never truly understand this new language that kids use when they talk [...]

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The book “Tirando O Sapatos,” by Nilton Bonder, which I mentioned in the last post, also struck me for several other reasons. One of them is the baggage Nilton mentions. He remarks that when we travel by plane, the crew always warns us: “Please be careful when opening the overhead bin, baggage may have shifted [...]

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By now I think that everybody knows who Susan Boyle is.  Her You Tube video has been viewed 100 million times! Boyle was a contestant on the English show, “Britain’s got Talent 2009.”  She is a single, 47 year old, Irish woman.  My generation would say is “lacking in beauty.”   A nice way to say [...]

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